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The standard way to begin a letter in Japanese is “haikei,” an honorific that can be literally translated as “your enlightened worship.” So it was a problem when a young businessman miswrote a few ...
TOKYO — Living alone in a tidy little house on the outskirts of Tokyo, 75-year-old Tomohiro Ishizuka spends hours dwelling on things unsaid. There are, he recalls, the stories he never told his two ...
In a full-page spread on March 2, 1979, the Los Angeles Times introduced its readers to Pinyin, a Chinese romanization system it said was changing the “familiar map of China.” In the new system ...
Could a writing robot make novelists obsolete? It might not happen anytime soon, but then again, it might. In Japan, a short novel co-written by an artificial intelligence program (its co-author is ...
The author of The Night of Baba Yaga on writing about yakuza, the Japanese mafia, from a queer lens and winning UK’s Crime ...
This July 21, 2012, photo shows Donald Keene during a visit to Ishikawa Takuboku's family grave in Hakodate, Hokkaido. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation) TOKYO -- After a while, the ...